Petition for a Realistic Solution to RMT's

[Havenae]

Square should just sell gill themselves and put these rmt people out of business

Except selling currency still causes the issue of undermining the in game economy by causing inflation as the in game currency tends to devalue when it isnt introduced naturally into the server's economy.

I'd say SE could start selling extras (kind of like they already do with mounts and so forth) on the mog station that you could then turn around and sell in game for gil but that usually turns into a greed fest for the developer.

[Krr]

regex "hello my friend ,"
regex "let's make things better"
regex "(insert gold website masked URL string here)"

basic regex isn't terribly expensive to run unless your string is an absurd recursive case, and could be used to filter tells (possibly even silently) and/or flag for suspicious activity. the impact on geniune new accounts could be made nonexistent by careful regulation of what strings are used to identify gil selling - use complex phrases or character combos pulled by examining gil seller /tells or /yells or /shouts and legitimate players are totally immune to this behavior.

we're not talking about complex predictive heuristics here. it's freaking regex on a list of strings.

[Amenian]

I was enjoying this game (aside from having to blacklist often), now my list is full and I am constantly spammed. Fix or I'm gone, sadly.

Honestly, this is the only way to get the spam fixed. Vote with your wallets. SE is notorious for both poor customer service and sticking their heads in the sand when a problem arises. No surprise it's happening again here. As the RMT spam seems to only be an issue with NA servers I think SE isn't seeing it as how big of a problem it is. The only way they will is when people start leaving. I myself have maybe two weeks left till my account expires and my primary reason is because I found another mmo that's just as fun that I'm not being spammed to oblivion on.

[LandricFrey]

2.55 is upon us and not a single peep about the rampant RMT problem...

[LandricFrey]

I wish every time a RMT related thread got bumped, Yoshi-P's cellphone would make the same noise as an in-game tell.

[LatisFarsight]

I'm 100% agree on this. SE MUST act and do something about it. I know there is some servers were it's hardly seen (reports about JP servers and EU server not having much RMT tell spamming ) , but speaking as a player in Ultros server , it's really REALLY annoying . I will not even rant about how they ruined the final cutscene to the main story ( cause I should've known better and just /busy) .but to miss a lot of tells from friends cause I couldn't see it with all the spam, that's really shitty... atm I'm sharing LSs with friends just so we can talk but if I want to say something private I mostly invite them to a party and chat... is this how SE wanted the chat system to be...?!!

[DarkRain]

What i would do. Set /tell and /shout to lock until level 15. When dungeons open up. That will force RMTs to level a job. But here is the bigger issue i have. I think the spam is a breach in the program a back door. There is no way to spam say 700 or more players in a 5 min gap unless you backdoor the program. You can ban the account but its not even a real account its a generated program built from within and then backdoored. What SE could do is sue the websites for breaching there game and unsolicited advertising making money in SEs intellectual property . BUT SE wont . Because i believe they allow this backdoor long as they get a percentage. But you or me stream the game and ask for donations or take screens and sell posters of our Chrs or FCs is illegal......Think about it

[LandricFrey]

Made an update to my original post. Please add your signatures here, and post any suggestions or personal stories in this thread. Thanks!

[Draconas]

Just add a "Report RMT" to right-click drop down, if you have 25 or 30 reports you are unable to send tells/chat (chat meaning shouts/yells/etc.) until you contact Support. Also that if you have reports against you they clear daily or weekly if you don't accumulate enough for your tells/chat functions to be disabled. Reason to disable chat functions is RMTs will start yelling/shouting in zones to advertise. Hopefully something can be also done about them adding you to FL.
Forgot to add that all accounts who were reported will be looked at by GMs and actions will be taken.

[BreathlessTao]

This wouldn't solve /say or /shout messages, obviously (though I've not really seen such for quite a while, either), but at least it could solve /tell harrassments: implement an option to allow /tells only from people on our friend list? It's really mind-boggling why this hasn't been done yet, to begin with.

On a sidenote, and mind you I'm completely in the dark about this, but honestly: couldn't SE, as a company, go against the actual sites that are "doing business" in the game? Either to the ISP or straight to court? I mean, is there really absolutely no way to take up any sort of legal action against whoever's running such a "business"?